“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, along with representatives for the White House and the Pentagon, insisted on Wednesday that a sudden incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels had necessitated a military response, which prompted the F.A.A. to close the airspace.”

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“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on social media that the F.A.A., an agency within the Transportation Department, and the Defense Department “acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion,” and that the threat had been eliminated.”

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“The transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, said the shutdown was a response to an incursion of drones from Mexican drug cartels.”

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“Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, has been mum on the topic since Wednesday, when he asserted that the shutdown was caused by a military response to a Mexican drone incursion.”

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“Earlier this week, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy declared that the authorities had confronted a "cartel drone incursion" over El Paso, Texas, only for the threat to turn out to be a party balloon.”

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